Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weaknesses of his adversaries. Some Israelis feared for the future of their young democracy when toughs broke up Labor Party rallies, threw eggs and tomatoes at Peres' car and shouted down speeches by Labor candidates. Begin undoubtedly picked up votes from his virulent anti-German campaign, his stern stand on the Syrian missile crisis, his meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last month and, above all, the surprise Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor...
...years of exile in Paris. They convinced Khomeini that such close bonds between the President and the military could lead a counterrevolutionary coup. Vowing that he would "cut everybody's hands off" who threatened Islam, Khomeini fired Banisadr as commander in chief. He then issued a stern warning to military officers: "Politics in the army is worse than heroin. It destroys the army from inside...
...toughly worded letter that, for the first time, criticized by name both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent to the Czechoslovaks three days before Soviet tanks moved into Prague in 1968, exacerbated an open rift within the Polish Central Committee and elicited a stern warning to the Soviets from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The U.S., said Haig, holds "the firm view that the Polish people should be left alone to determine their future course." Only a compromise decision not to bring matters to a head allowed Kania to defuse the immediate crisis...
...papacy. Let us now enjoy it." On the other hand, as Carter proved, modesty of life-style does not automatically capture the nation's heart: James K. Polk brought a Presbyterian rectitude to the White House (he and his wife Sarah banned dancing and drinking), but such stern virtue did absolutely nothing to elevate Polk in the opinion of history. Chester A. Arthur went in for luxe, the best of everything, with roughly the same result...
...matched his own stern definition of a hero: someone willing "to live in toil, suffering, pain and sacrifice for years." Yet he was neither a political rabble-rouser nor a Christian martyr. Violence was abhorrent to him; indeed, his personal intercession helped prevent bloody clashes at more than one critical juncture in his nation's history. But no army of freedom fighters could have done more than Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski to wear down the all-embracing authority of Poland's atheistic Communist regime...